25/09/2013

atSTANDPOINT GALLERY,
45 Coronet Street, N1 6HD 27 September – 19 October 2013 Private view: Thursday 26 September 6-8.30pm "Talk
to the Body presents a new body of work from Corinna Till. Working for
the first time with textiles, large fabric works will be hung and
weighted from the ceiling. Cottons, polyester and leatherette are
carefully stitched and braced, pitched up and painted upon. Till applies
force to the material; creating and alleviating tensions within the
fabric. These methodically made structures provide the architecture for
Till’s loose, light handling of paint.

Each work starts with an action. They are holding on and letting go,
both literally carrying the shopping, dumping the rubbish, and in terms
of how we position ourselves - stance, holding back, holding together,
holding tight. In one double-sided work an older woman passes a baton to
a younger woman. The relationship is not simple, beneath them lie piled
the batons that have been dropped.

There are insistent reminders of our bodily selves, bodies whose
requirements and vulnerabilities can be inconvenient, but can also be
the source of pleasure. Till’s work is motivated by a desire to utilise
switch points between what is in and out of our control – finding
openings for manoeuvre, changing minds and shedding skins.

In previous work Till has used painted surfaces provoke sensations
and conjectures about how surrounding structures have come to be the way
they are. Here, she continues her experimental engagement with painting
amongst other things, reminding us of its material status, as one more
sticky accretion, that adheres, or soaks in, to fabric."

BECAUSE BECAUSE:
"Now i am no longer alone.
I am sucked in by others.
I am drowning in true depths, without any reference point."
(Lygia Clark)

What you will see and meet from September 21st to October 12th at Scotty Enterprises,
COISAS MOLHADAS E COISAS SECAS/ WET THINGS AND DRY THINGS/ NASSE DINGE UND TROCKENE DINGE, is a selection of what we encountered, touched and got touched by,
during 133 days and nights that we spent in the great mental city of São Paulo.

The exhibition is an assemblage of our project LÌNGUAS E LÌNGUAS/ LANGUAGES AND TONGUES/ SPRACHEN UND ZUNGEN. In portuguese, like in most other latin languages, the word „língua“
means tongue as well as language and therefore combines two raw axes of
our art practice, the body (tongue) and its representation (language) in
one word. Tonguing a new territory and meeting the material we were researching
the works of three brazilian women: Lygia Clark, Clarice Lispector and
Suely Rolnik. And as all true encounters involve molecular blurring, the matter
created by this three brazilian chain smokers has greatly contaminated
our works. LÌNGUAS E LÌNGUAS was and is an attempt to “apprehend the world in its
intensive dimensions: as a diagram of forces that affect us and are
present in our bodies in the form of sensations.” This line, taken from Suely Rolniks concept of the resonant body, which
she came up with to write about the body of work of Lygia Clark, echoes
through this exhibition. It handles with sensations, sensations that easily escape from language. Even moist language and even though Clarice Lispector was very good in catching them.

Between the lines there is the desire for speaking in tongues, spitting
spirits, vomiting words, treating words like bodies, stripping a text
from a rock.

16/09/2013

Special collaboration with the producers of the documentary Highrise and nowDomestica (Housemaids). This is an open call for texts that address the spatial manifestations of 'domestic service'.Housemaidsoffers compelling insight into the legacies of colonialism and its relationship to domestic workers in 'South America'. The film ruptures the silence about the role of domestic workers in 'Brazilian' society, provoking questions about economic and racial privilege and inequality.

The final essay will be included in Critical Cities: Volume 4, with the book accompanying the film's DVD and will attract a handsome reward of £400. Four additional papers will be published in the online journal Arquitextos.

04/09/2013

KT press, publishers of n.paradoxa, is publishing a new book
series on feminist art theory and the work of contemporary women
artists (visual arts only, post-1970) – into 2013. View the existing series as it develops here.
This new series could be characterised as a return to the 18th
century tradition of pamphleteering – with a modern digital twist and an
ISBN! The first series will contain 5-10 books.
It is intended that each book in the series will be an e-book,
sold and circulated at low cost as .epubs from KT press’ website,
Amazon's Kindle store and through Ingram's Independent Publisher's
Program.
Each book will contain text and images, and where necessary, audio and video files.
The size is c. 40-60 display pages: (c. 8,000-40,000 words).

KT press holds the view that feminism in relation to the visual arts
is a contentious subject but it is also an open question about the
relationship between art, aesthetics and politics which needs to be
debated, especially with regard to the work of women artists. Authors
must specify which feminist ideas they are engaging with and where their
views of feminism originate. New perspectives and a critical
consideration of the legacy of feminism will be valued in selecting this
series.
The aim of the series is to publish books containing:
a) collected conference papers or panel discussions on or about feminist art
b) translations of writings about feminist art from any language into English for the first time (with commentaries).
c) discussions of a single woman artist’s work by one or
several authors including documentation of their projects (where no
monograph exists)
d) collected writings / performance scripts / art notes by a
woman artist on art and her practice (Poems will not be considered).
e) new polemics about feminist-art-theory and feminist art
criticism arising from a single author or a discussion between
feminists.
f) essays engaging in future thinking about feminism in the visual arts or written as new manifestos for the future.
g) extended discussions of curation or exhibitions as forms of
feminist reading or praxis or essays written bringing together works
to form virtual exhibitions “of our wishes”.

Ideas developed from theses (MA to PhD) will be considered but
authors are asked not to send the thesis itself, only a summary of the
key arguments and a description of the subject. Women who have not
published a book before are encouraged to apply, if they are prepared to
develop their ideas in co-operation with the publisher.

Ideas based in post-structuralist approaches to language,
psychoanalysis and social critique of art and politics, cyberfeminist
thinking, exploring new art forms, feminist post-colonial critiques,
feminisms of the North and South/ East and West, approaches to global
diasporas in contemporary art, issue-based political thinking about
questions of social justice in relation to contemporary art are all
welcome.
KT press operates as a not-for-profit company. Fees to authors
will be paid and a royalty on copies sold. This project is supported
by a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New
York. Potential authors should write to Katy Deepwell at KT press,
sending an outline of their idea for an e-book. katy@ktpress.co.uk

After a short but successful presentation of the archive at the Tallinna Kunstihoone in Tallinn, Estonia, we are happy to announce the next opening of the “re.act.feminism #2″ – a performing archive at the Fundacio Antoni Tapies in Barcelona, Spain! The continuously growing archive has recently been enlarged by another 13 artists and contains currently more than 233 performance documents, mostly DVD and photography by 163 artists and artist collectives.

Opening: Thursday, 15 November 2012 at 7:30pm
Several artists and the curators Bettina Knaup and Beatrice Ellen Stammer will be present!

During its stay at the Fundacion Antoni Tapies the archive will be accompanied by a series of lectures & talks initiated in collaboration with Centre de Cultura de Dones Francesca Bonnemaison, the Goethe-Institut Barcelona, the Mercat de les Flors. An Activity Space for educational and research activities in the form of workshops, screenings and presentations will allow the audience to further engage in current questions on performance art and feminism.

The mobile archive will be showcased at the Fundacio Antoni Tapies from 16 November 2012 until 17 February 2013 before returning to Berlin in June 2013 to be presented at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin.

In order to find out more about re.act.feminism #2 and the show in Barcelona, please visit our website

Call for proposals for written research projects based in the Women’s Art Library/Make at Goldsmiths, University of London. This call is open to all, including students.
This year the bursary is presented in association with the Whitechapel Gallery.

Women’s Art Library/Make and
Feminist Review are inviting artists and curators to propose an original engagement with
the notion of archives and identities,
starting with over/under/mis-identification with the material collection
of the Women’s Art Library.

This is a call for speculative archive projects from which a shortlist of proposals will be selected for a future event at Goldsmiths to coincide with the programme of the newly established Feminist Research Centre. From this selection one project will be chosen and the final work will be presented in the Open Space pages of a forthcoming issue of Feminist Review and feature in a public launch event at the Whitechapel Gallery.

The £1000 bursary will support the successful applicant’s research time in the collection.

The Women’s Art Library/Make is a collection of art documentation that began as a collective archive by UK-based women artists in the late 1970s. It has since developed into a research resource featuring a wide range of media that include emerging artists active internationally as well as historical archives of individuals and organisations. The Make collection is particularly rich in images and features a unique slide collection, poster collection, videos and photographs as well as audiotapes and ephemera.

Feminist Review provides an accessible site for creative debate in the form of writing and/or visual works that relate to and expand issues in gender scholarship.

The panel consisting of representatives from Feminist Review and Goldsmiths would look for proposals that engage the creative as well as academic sector. A proposal for development and a CV would be required, including good visual documentation if relevant.

For more info contact: Althea Greenan, e-mail: make@gold.ac.uktel. 020 7717 2295 Special Collections, Library, Goldsmiths, University of London New Cross, London SE14 6NW

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Adrienne Rich

The problem, finally, is not that of who does the housework and childcare, whether or not one can find a life companion who will share in the sustenance and repair of daily life – crucial as these may be in the short run. It is a question of the community we are reaching for in our work and on which we can draw; whom we envision as our hearers, our co-creators, our challengers; who will urge us to take our work further, more seriously, than we had dared; on whose work we can build. Women have done these things for each other, sought each other in community, even if only in enclaves, often through correspondence, for centuries. Denied space in the universities, the scientific laboratories, the professions, we have devised our networks. We must not be tempted to trade the possibility of enlarging and strengthening those networks, and of extending them to more and more women, for the illusion of power and success as “exceptional” or “privileged” women in the professions. Rich, Adrienne, 1976, "Conditions for Work: The Common World of Women"